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Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughs.Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now I confess, it is a temptation that is beyond many men, they do not know what this temptation is, that I prize Christ only to deliver me from Hell, and bring me to Heaven, this temptation is above the highest form of the course of the world, then ordinary professors. Now the Spirit in the Text thus answers this temptation, the Soul thus answers: It is true, I do seek Christ to save me from Hell, and bring me to Heaven, the fear of the wrath of the great God under which I saw my self to be, and the displeasure of God, was mighty upon my Spirit, the Lord hath made my Soul to be sensible of the dreadful breach that sin hath made between him and my Soul, and the Lord hath caused the fear of eternity to fall upon my soul, and I come to be convinced of this, that such is the breach between God and my soul, that there is none but Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the second Covenant, that is able to make up the breach, and my soul makes after him as the Mediator, as he is propounded in the word, in the Gospel, to be a Mediator between God and mankind, so my soul makes after him, and closeth with him: and what can the Devil say to this? For my heart doth close with Christ, in the way that Christ is tendered unto me in the Gospel; for so he is tendered, God himself saith thus, God so loved the world that he sent forth his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. Thus God sets forth his Son, as if God should say thus, Be it known unto you, O poor wretched sinful creatures, that are in danger of eternal perishing, that I have sent forth my only begotten son into the world, and tender him unto your souls, to the end that your souls may not perish, but have everlasting Life. Thus God tenders his Son. Now then, when a soul shall be made sensible of the danger of eternal perishing;
Now I confess, it is a temptation that is beyond many men, they do not know what this temptation is, that I prize Christ only to deliver me from Hell, and bring me to Heaven, this temptation is above the highest form of the course of the world, then ordinary professors. Now the Spirit in the Text thus answers this temptation, the Soul thus answers: It is true, I do seek Christ to save me from Hell, and bring me to Heaven, the fear of the wrath of the great God under which I saw my self to be, and the displeasure of God, was mighty upon my Spirit, the Lord hath made my Soul to be sensible of the dreadful breach that sin hath made between him and my Soul, and the Lord hath caused the fear of eternity to fall upon my soul, and I come to be convinced of this, that such is the breach between God and my soul, that there is none but Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the second Covenant, that is able to make up the breach, and my soul makes after him as the Mediator, as he is propounded in the word, in the Gospel, to be a Mediator between God and mankind, so my soul makes after him, and closeth with him: and what can the Devil say to this? For my heart doth close with Christ, in the way that Christ is tendred unto me in the Gospel; for so he is tendered, God himself saith thus, God so loved the world that he sent forth his only begotten Son, that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. Thus God sets forth his Son, as if God should say thus, Be it known unto you, O poor wretched sinful creatures, that are in danger of eternal perishing, that I have sent forth my only begotten son into the world, and tender him unto your souls, to the end that your souls may not perish, but have everlasting Life. Thus God tenders his Son. Now then, when a soul shal be made sensible of the danger of eternal perishing;